{"id":135068,"date":"2023-11-06T10:08:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T10:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finbestnews.com\/?p=135068"},"modified":"2023-11-06T10:08:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T10:08:59","slug":"braverman-told-powers-are-there-in-fight-against-remembrance-day-hate-mob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finbestnews.com\/politics\/braverman-told-powers-are-there-in-fight-against-remembrance-day-hate-mob\/","title":{"rendered":"Braverman told ‘powers are there’ in fight against Remembrance Day ‘hate mob’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minister on pro-Palestine march on Remembrance weekend<\/h3>\n

Suella Braverman has been urged to make sure police use new legal powers to protect the Cenotaph and Remembrance Day commemorations from the Pro-Palestinian protesters branded “a hate mob”.<\/p>\n

With plans to hold “a million person march” for Palestine and against Israel this weekend, Tory MPs are upping the pressure on the Home Secretary and Metropolitan Police to either block the march taking place or use the new laws to stop them going anywhere near the Cenotaph.<\/p>\n

Stoke North MP Jonathan Gullis and Bracknell MP James Sunderland, a former army colonel, put forward the Desecration of War Memorials Bill last year which eventually became law in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (Section 50).<\/p>\n

It means there is a legal duty to protect war memorials and that anyone found guilty of desecrating them can be sent to prison for up to 10 years.<\/p>\n

Mr Gullis told Express.co.uk: \u201cEvery war memorial in every village, every town and every city across our country is sacred and serves to remind us of the immeasurable gratitude that we must afford to our armed forces, both past and present.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: <\/strong> Boris Johnson blasts ‘obscene’ Remembrance Day march as ‘racist’<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThey stand as a great, solemn, eternal reminder of our glorious dead. We cannot bring back those lives, or erase the grief of families and communities, but the least we can do is ensure that memorials are adequately protected, with the police enforcing the laws we passed to punish those who would deface or defile them.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a social media post he added: “With my friend James Sunderland, we introduced the Desecration of War Memorials Bill, which the Government adopted and passed into law under the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Act 2022 (Section 50). The powers are there!”<\/p>\n

He noted: “I remember Labour mocking it & calling them ‘statues’.”<\/p>\n

Mr Sunderland told Express.co.uk that ministers also must play their part in ensuring the protests do not go near the Cenotaph this weekend.<\/p>\n

He said: “Due to our Desecration of War Memorials Bill, which is now in law, the Police have the powers to deal with any odious behaviour at the Cenotaph but the Government must also ensure that any protest goes nowhere near it in the first place.”<\/p>\n

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